How would you feel living next door to a derelict house that the owners abandoned 16 years ago? The house in question is at 39 Alma Terrace in Silverhill. It is overgrown, it’s covered in scaffolding that neighbours have been told is being paid for by Hastings Borough Council, but the council has no record […]
Hastings In Focus offers a platform to those who have held, and those who still hold, elected political office in and around Hastings and St Leonards, to come and have their say. To kick things off our former Conservative MP Sally-Ann Hart looks back at this month’s local election results and explains what she believes […]
I’ve been a reporter for more than 40 years. I’m not a writer, I’m not a columnist, I’m not an opinion former I’m a good old fashioned, well seasoned, hack writes Stuart Baillie. It’s strange because in my career I’ve had short spells away from news but even when I was working in other industries […]
Have a listen to The Frustrated Authors as they discuss their favourite books and the things that get in the way of ther own writing…
Chris New is in the middle of a busy year at The Stables Theatre in Hastings with three new plays and a busy teaching schedule. After graduating from RADA Chris enjoyed huge success in the West End, starring opposite Alan Cumming in the 2006 revival of Martin Sherman’s Bent for which he won an Evening […]
On Friday afternoon the result of years of what is being described as ‘financial mismanagement’ will be laid bare before members of Hastings Borough Council’s (HBC) ruling Labour cabinet at an emergency meeting to discuss the authority’s looming financial crisis as it faces having to make multi-million pound savings. HBC is broke and unless it […]
Once again courtesy of Derelict In The UK we bring you photographs of iconic and deserted buildings, this time St Leonards Parish Church. Standing grand on the St Leonards seafront, this beautiful building was completed in 1961 to replace its predecessor destroyed by a direct hit from V-1 ‘doodlebug’. It originally had structural building problems […]
Was Hastings cursed by the occultist Aleister Crowley? Much has been written about Aleister Crowley, the famous dabbler in ‘sex magick’. He reached the end of his days in a boarding house on The Ridge in 1947 – he’d run out of money and he’d run out of friends. The Victorian house known as Netherwood […]
Stuart Baillie finds out about the history of a building that has always intrigued him… I was standing on top of the East Hill at the weekend showing some friends who were visiting the town some of the landmarks of the area. They pointed west and asked, ‘what’s that?’ What they were asking about was of course Marine […]
